This year Te Pōkai Tara Universities New Zealand released a Pan-university Statement on Open Access. The statement included a goal to: Increase open access across our university repositories from 48% of published research (current) to 70% by 2025. This is possible if all eight universities deposit all eligible manuscripts into their repositories. On Friday 8 […]

When you’re making an open book or resource commonly you will want to rely on things that other people have made. However, it’s quite possible you might struggle to find openly-licensed text or images for something and turn to Genrative AI to make your own version. Here is a quick guide to copyright, Gen AI […]

Read on to find out about open texts and the 2022-23 open textbook project but it may be easier to simply get in touch with the project team: Get in touch with Richard White or Kate Thompson by email. Join us at a scheduled Zoom drop-in hour (click to join or email Richard to forward […]

Open Access Week 2021 (Oct 25-29) – It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity This week Open Access Australasia hosts a series of online discussions on the theme of building structural equity into access to knowledge. Can open practices improve our scholarly communication and publishing ecosystem? How can we ensure every learner has […]

Dr Ginny Barbour, Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group writes in The Conversation today. Shutterstock Virginia Barbour, Queensland University of Technology Scientific publishing is not known for moving rapidly. In normal times, publishing new research can take months, if not years. Researchers prepare a first version of a paper on new findings and submit […]

Yesterday we focused on the citation advantage for open access articles, particularly for repository-based articles. Today’s post is a guest post by Fiona Glasgow of our Research Support Unit. There are many ways to make your work openly available. One option is to deposit your work in an institutional repository; at Otago we have OUR […]

So far this Open Access Week, there’s a chance I’ve depressed readers of this blog. “2 out of 5 Otago articles are free-to-read?” I hear you moan. “Access to research costs us how much?!?” you wail. But I did suggest that there are reasons to be positive. Open access is often framed as being the […]

When I talk to researchers about open access, cost is often the first thing that comes up. We know that researchers are in principle overwhelmingly in favour of their work being free to read (with 87% in a large survey backing open as default)¹ but, as we saw yesterday our practice in making our work […]

How many of Otago’s research articles are free-to-read on the web? Not as many as you would hope.   ‘Access provided by the University of Otago’: when you’re reading an online article how often do you notice that little piece of text at the top of the screen? It’s ubiquitous (and tiny) so we hardly […]

Nature has published a feature article that provides good overview of the current state of data publication and sharing in science. Despite the title, which suggests evangelism in favour of open access, it’s a generally well-balanced view of the challenges facing us right now: “…the current state of science: partly open, partly closed, and with […]